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a good stand. - Monona: Acreage and condition reduced by the vast amount of rain. 
Chickasaw : Has come on beyond all precedent. 
Missourr.— Wayne: Late. Cass: Extra. Chariton: Planted late and looks poorly. 
Caldwell: Late planted growing prodigiously. Jackson: Wherever it has had proper 
attention promises well. Adair: Prospect never better. Bates: Looking better for 
its age than I ever saw it. Bollinger: Growing finely, but some fields foul owing to 
the wet weather. Boone: Except a few localities, very promising. Harrison: Excel- 
lent prospect. Jasper: Chinch-bugs have left the wheat and are moving en masse on 
the corn and oats. Lincoln: Very small, but looks well. “Moniieau: Never promised 
better. Pulaski: Looking very well, but attacked by chinch-bugs. Ralls: Young, 
but looking well. Reynolds: If it were not for the rain, which keeps the corn grow- 
ing very fast, the chinch-bugs would do a great deal of damage. Jorth: Prospect 
never better. Clay: Planted late; has had a favorable season and promises well. 
Howard: Very backward, but, if seasonable, will make a heavy crop. Ozark: Look- 
ing very unpromising, but the warm weather and frequent showers of June have given 
it an excellent start. Phelps: The chinch-bugs are going for the corn. Putnam: 
Promise of abundant crop. Shelby: Prospect of abundant yield. Sullivan: Put in 
the ground late, but favorable weather has brought it nearly up to a fair average. 
Vernon: The chinch-bugs are now taking the corn; great loss is apprehended. Pemis- 
cot: An extraordinarily wet season; corn in the grass much more than other years. 
Barry: The cold weather retarded planting and cansed it to come up badly. Schuyler : 
Prospect remarkably good in the regular stand and the cleanness of the ground. 
Wright: Looking well except the early variety. 4 
Kansas.—Douglas: Has a poor stand and is backward. Leavenworth: Looks very 
well. Butler: Weather very dry; corn sufiering. Coffey: A large quantity of land 
intended for corn will be sown in millet, buckwheat, &c. With fine weather the crop 
of corn may become as good and large as last year. Davis: Good with the exception 
of being blown down by violent storm. JVoodson: The high water drowned the crop 
in the bottom-lands, and the excessively wet weather, in May, kept the farmers out of 
their fields until the weeds took what the water left. They have just finished replant- 
ing. Cherokee: Looking well, though backward; in fields adjoining wheat the 
chinch-bugs are beginning to work. Dickinson: Have not had a better prospect for the 
last twelve years. Howard: The chinch-bug troubles some late-planted corn. Linn: 
Excessive wet cut short the corn-crop in acreage and made it difficult to keep it clean, 
but nearly every farmer runs a two-horse cultivator, and so they are getting the weeds 
reduced. Labette: Would be an average crop were it not for the ravages of the 
chinch-bugs. Any amount of corn in the county that was knee-high one week ago is 
now dead. Have seen stalks, 20 inches high, clear of a bug in the morning at 6 o’clock, 
at 6 in the evening literally black with bugs all around and two or three deep. Neosho: 
The chinch-bugs are now going for the corn, and have already materially injured the 
crop. Osage: Mostly planted very late. ice: Avery hard storm, June 30, blowed the 
corn down very badly. Sedgewick: Too wet to cultivate corn to advantage. Shawnee : 
Uneven and some late; the early fine. Sumner: Some fields very weedy on account of 
wet weather; growing finely. Washington: Though planted late, is well advanced by 
the exceeding warm weather. Republic: About two or three weeks late, but doing 
well. Jefferson: Qwing to wet weather it has been extremely difficult to secure a fair 
stand of corn, and much of that coming up well has been abandoned to the weeds ; © 
such as has been cleaned out is doing remarkably well. Pottawatomie: Choked by 
weeds owing to the ground being so wet that the farmers could not cultivate it. 
NerBRASKA.— Hall: In consequence of one heavy rain-storm after another the greater 
portion of corn was planted in June, and some of our best bottom-lands not till June 
20. Merrick: A good deal of corn was planted between the 15th and 25th of June. 
Boone: Excessive moisture has retarded the growth of corn; the acreage much de- 
creased in proportion to the increase of population. Nemaha: The low price deterred 
many from planting the usual quantity; the late spring retarded planting, and the 
‘cool rainy weather has caused that planted to become very foul. Clay: The bulk not 
planted till June; though not as forward as usual, the prospect is good. Richardson: 
In low places rather weedy. Cass: Very late and in rather bad condition. Burt: 
Backward on account of rains, late planting, and grasshoppers. : 
CALIFORNIA.— Fresno: Grasshoppers are injuring the crop. Butte: Only a little corn 
raised. 
OREGON.—Muitnomah : No better prospect for the last thirteen years. Clackamas: 
The cool weather has retarded the growth of corn. Douglas: Corn did not come up 
even. Columbia: The weather has been too cool and cloudy for corn; it looks sickly. 
Linn: In a better condition than ever before. 
Urau.—Utah: The cold rains and frosts, the last of May and first of June, rotted 
the corn in the ground. Davis: The excessive rain in the latter part of May was very 
injurious to corn; many had to replant. 
